NSWP+

Globally, sex workers continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. Recent studies have confirmed the high prevalence of HIV amongst sex workers, yet policies and programmes often fail to address the many factors that affect positive sex workers’ access to HIV treatment, care, and support.

About NSWP+

NSWP+ is a platform for HIV positive sex workers and people committed to treatment access and equal rights for sex workers living with HIV. We have launched this special platform within NSWP to campaign for the rights of HIV positive sex workers and to bring our issues, alongside the energy and glamour of the sex worker movement to the wider treatment activist movement.

NSWP+ was formed during the Sex Worker Freedom Festival in 2012, when a group of positive sex workers came together and demanded recognition that ‘sex workers are not the problem, but part of the solution’.

As a platform for all those committed to defending the rights of sex workers living with HIV, NSWP+ now also exists to share information and to communicate the demands and needs of sex workers living with HIV. These original demands are set out below. Sex workers will campaign alongside treatment activists and other key affected populations to defend the human rights of sex workers to appropriate HIV treatment, care, and support.